Maps and Mapmaking

Reading List

Web related resources

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

This PBS sponsored website has interactive portals to explore Native Americans that were encountered, trails that were traveled, and journals that were written. Portals include: An Interactive Trail Map, The Trip Archive, and Classroom Activities.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/

Sponsored by National Geographic, this website includes an interactive journey log. The log outlines each leg of their journey and included journal entries and hand-drawn maps and illustrations. It also has portals called Searching for Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark's Lost Missouri, Photo Gallery, Lewis and Clark on the Rocks, Game, Kid's Activity, and Guided Trip.

http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/ content-channel.asp?ChannelID=57

This website contains a section titled Geography which discusses some of the tools and methods the explorers used to measure and map.

http://www.jstor.org/view/00167428/ ap010262/01a00030/0?frame=noframe&userID=815d1119 unl.edu/01cc99334100501e7d1af&dpi=3&config=jstor

An Analysis of the Exploratory Process. The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. Geographical Review 1972

http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/ content-channel.asp?ChannelID=57

Lewis and Clark.The Maps of Exploration 1507-1814. An Exhibition in Special Collections at the University of Virginia Alderman Library. The online exhibit shows maps that inspired the imagination to explore the western United States. Includes maps of European explorers and the 1803 Nicholas King Map of the Western United States

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ gmdhtml/dsxphome.html

Library of Congress: Maps of Exploration and Discovery.

http://www.surveysinc.com/history/ surveyors.html

This site contains information on notable surveyors in United States history.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ resources/ngo/education/themes.html

The site hosted by National Geographic defines the five themes of geography and gives examples of activities that can be done to reinforce them.

http://users.netonecom.net/~swordman/ crafts/compassmaking.htm

This website has information on making homemade instruments such as a compass. While it may not be practical to actually make these instruments, it may be worth showing students some of the images and discussing them.

http://www.jstor.org/view/00167428/sp060002/06x0018r/ 0?searchUrl=http%3a//www.jstor.org/search/ BasicResults%3fhp%3d25%26si%3d1%26gw%3djtx %26jtxsi%3d1%26jcpsi%3d1%26artsi%3d1%26Query %3dGeography%2bPerformance%2bin%2bHigh%2bSchool %26wc%3don&frame=noframe&currentResult=00167428 %2bsp060002%2b06x0018r%2b0%2cFF7F &userID=802427a6yale.edu/01cce4405f114c3113a3c85a80 &dpi=3&config=jstor

The Classroom as the Field for Studying Geographical Education. L. Jean Palmer-Moloney and Elizabeth Bloom. The Geographic Review. 91 (4) 641-654 October 2002.

A report on the partnership between Hartwick College Geography faculty and Oneonta Middle School social studies teachers that suggests that a collaboration between college geography faculty and public school social studies/history teachers to supplement the curriculum with geographical material and material on spatial intelligence has the positive effect of boosting geographic skills and the presence of geography in the school curriculum while at the same time not detracting from the school climate that emphasizes performance on state standardized tests.

http://www.newberry.org/smith/slidesets/ss21.html

The Herman Dunlap Smith Center for the Study of Cartography hosts a series of 36 slide shows. Slide show 21, Cartography of the Mexico-United States Frontier, has commentary by Antonio Rios-Bustamante. It is a selection of maps illustrating the contrasting perspectives Mexicans and Anglo-Americans had of their common frontier region during the mid-1800s. Slide show 22, Map-Making Misconceptions and the Quest for a Water Route to Asia through the Great Lakes, has commentary by Jack H. Haymond. It highlights six representative printed maps that portrayed what sixteenth- to eighteenth-century explorers believed to be feasible water routes from the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes to the Pacific.

http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/manual/ mapcompass2.shtml#Compass

OA Guide to Map & Compass - Part 2 part of The Backpacker's Field Manual by Rick Curtis published by Random House 1998 This has a large and easily-visible diagram of the parts of the compass. It also explains how to use the compass. Chapter Six includes information about the difference between North and True North, declination

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/index.html

Site sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities to commemorate 200 years of the Corps of Discovery.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

The Perry-Castaneda map collection from the University of Texas has an extensive collection of Historical Maps of the United States.

http://www.lewisandclark200.org/ index_nf.php?cID=1015

View to access the National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration website. This site also has links to Native American reactions to the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial.

http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/ resources/docldord.html

This site contains the full text of the Northwest Land Ordinance of 1785.

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ entry.php?rec=1472

I consider this a background reading for the Land Ordinance of 1785. It is from the Ohio History Central, an Ohio website.

Web Related Resources Regarding Maps of New Haven

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/ brbldl/oneITEM.asp?pid=2003038&iid=1064224&srchtype=

Wadsworth map of New Haven 1748 from the Beinecke library collection

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/ brbldl/oneITEM.asp?pid=2005614&iid=1032493&srchtype=

This map of New Haven and its vicinity was first published in 1831. The map shows New Haven, East Haven, West Haven, Hamden, and North Haven. The nine squares are visible as is Long Wharf. Westville is labeled on the map.

http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Library/ Maps/neighborhoods.gif

This map shows New Haven Neighborhoods and 2000 census tracts.

http://www.yale.edu/nhohp/modelcity/images/ interviewee/projects-by-neighborhood.jpg

This map shows New Haven neighborhoods from a bird's eye perspective. It was published on an urban renewal website.

http://www.kurumi.com/roads/ct/pics/art-34-wh-75d.jpg

This 1979 map shows the proposed controversial Rte 34 connector which was just recently officially aborted. Instead a new plan for the area is being developed by the City of New Haven.

http://www.jud.ct.gov/external/imgs/kids/ NewHaven-BirdsEye-W.jpg

This map shows a bird's-eye colored draft of downtown New Haven.

Texts

The Americans 1998 McDougal Littell

A copy of the Abel Buell Map is found on page 117. Information about the The Land Ordinance of 1785 can be found on page 128. A special section on Geography and the Land Ordinance can be found on page 130-131.

p.128 Land Ordinance of 1785

p. 130-131 Special Section on the Land Ordinance of 1785

Chart The Mapping the Earth Files. Discovery Channel School Discovery Communications 2001 Discovery Channel's 31 page booklet is illustrated with lots of color photographs and is organized into articles about the history of mapping the earth. It gives a great summary of the processes used map the earth in antiquity and up to the present.

Classroom Instruction that Works by R. J. Marzano 2001, Alexandria, VA: ASCD Marzano's text includes a variety of effective teaching strategies that have been adopted by the New Haven School District.

How to Lie with Maps. Mark Monmonier. 1996. University of Chicago Press. ChicagoMonmonier's work is much acclaimed for his critical interpretation of maps.

Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes 2006 Alvin Joseph, editor

This text gives accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition from the experiences of Native Americans whom Lewis and Clark encountered on their journey.

Lewis and Clark's West William Clark's 1810 Master Map of the American West. This is a full-sized color facsimile of the original manuscript map from the Yale Collection of Western Americana.

The Mapmakers John Noble Wilford 2000 Vintage New York

Chapter 12 Mapping America, the Boundary Makers and Chapter 13 Mapping America Westward Topographers give detailed synopsis of the major people and their contributions to the mapping of the United States. Overall the book traces the development of mapmakers from antiquity to the present.

Mapping David Greenhood 1973 University of Chicago Press

As part of our course reading this provided the background for completing the map practicum in our seminar.

Mapping the World An Illustrated History of Cartography Ralph E. Ehrenberg

The author, former Library of Congress Chief of the Map and Geography Division, has chronologically arranged some of the world's great maps and provides their historical context. I found the following most useful to my study:

Mitchell Map 1755 Map of the British and French Dominions in North America with Roads, Distances, Limits, and Extent of the Settlements. p. 136

Benjamin Franklin's Map of the Gulf Stream p. 144

The Indian Map that Guided Lewis and Clark p. 150

Lewis and Clark Map the West p. 156

Celebrating the American Centennial p. 157.

The Army's Master Map of the West p. 177

Schoolcraft Triangle Michigan Aerial Photography p. 198

The Northwest Ordinances, So Called, and Confusion William O. Swan

History of Education Quarterly 1965 History of Education Society.

Undaunted Courage. Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. Stephen Ambrose New York 1996

Steven Ambrose's 500 page work tells the story of the expedition of the Corps of Discovery in richly engaging narrative. It was a national bestseller.

A Wilderness So Immense. The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America. Jon Kukla First Anchor Books Random House New York 2003. Want to read about the connection that Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, Carlos III of Spain, James Monroe, John Jay and others had to the Louisiana Purchase? Kukla's account draws on the research of letters, memoirs, and contemporary documents. It includes a number of maps by David Lindroth.